(a) The judge must be present at all stages of the proceedings and must try to keep them as short as possible, which means that the office of family judge cannot be delegated. Hence, the judge cannot commission anyone to carry out a procedural act that is deemed to be part of his or her own functions, since such delegation would render the procedural act carried out by a person other than the family judge null and void, even if that person was the court clerk or another legal assistant.
a) El juez deberá estar presente en todas las actuaciones y procurará la concentración de las mismas, lo que implica que la función del juez de familia es indelegable, y por lo tanto, no puede comisionar a ninguna persona para la realización de ningún acto procesal propio de sus funciones, ya que dicha delegación sería sancionada con la nulidad del acto procesal realizado por persona distinta del juez de familia, no importando que se trate del secretario del tribunal o de otro colaborador jurídico.